Science Learning Hub

Welcome to the Science Learning Hub, a place to find out more about New Zealand science. Watch scientists in action with one of our short video clips, find out what questions are being asked, and explore some of the key ideas. There are loads of free, quality assured teaching resources to support school science learning. Browse our contexts or try our advanced search.

Science teaching ideas

Feeding relationships are often shown as simple ‘food chains’, but in reality, these relationships are much more complex, and the term ‘food web’ more accurately shows the links between producers, consumers and decomposers.

In this activity, students build their own food web using images of organisms from the marine ecosystem.